"Britain is full!" is the cry of the media of Great Britain. It is a phrase that calmly and eloquently explains why Britain can't possibly take on one more immigrant, otherwise the island will sink for some reason, or that we cannot build on the countryside because there is little left of it. Emotive terms have been formed and liberally used such as concreting over the countryside and urban sprawl. With only about 7.7% of the land settled, we can’t concrete over the countryside even if we wanted to. About two thirds of all new housing is built within existing urban areas with the remainder mainly built on the edge of urban areas. Very little is built on open countryside.

The facts reveal that Britain is actually empty of people, with a surplus of land. Facts show us that we are living in crowded and dense cities, not a crowded and urbanised country. Cramming the population into a small percentage of the land ratchets up land prices by creating an artificial land shortage. The 1947 Town & Country planning act maintains this imbalance of land usage. There is clearly propaganda given out by the British media of immigration and running short of land.

The UK is only ranked in the 50s worldwide; if you count states with at least 9 million people they miss the top 10[7] (beaten by both Belgium and the Netherlands). This poor showing is largely due to Scotland and Wales letting the side down. England particularly beats out Belgium although the Netherlands remains ahead.

Something that is often linked to this sentiment is the problem of demand outstripping supply for public services such as schools and hospitals, despite the fact that this is actually due to cuts, failure to invest in new schools and hospitals, and insufficiently rapid responsiveness of central government funding levels to migration trends, and not to immigration. Indeed, the NHS would collapse overnight without the immigrants who form an essential part of its staff.

Please bear in mind that contrary to popular belief, not every single British person is xenophobic.

“”We're just doing what we've always done, which is to say that Britain is full, it's the most overcrowded country in Europe, it's time to shut the doors, to persuade and get to leave, all the illegals, the bogus asylum seekers - the foreign criminals. And for the people who are legally here, legitimately here, they would have all the rights that everyone else has in this British society.

“”Jill Matheson, the National Statistician, predicts that within less than 20 years, the population will rise from 61 million to 70 million. Nearly three quarters of that increase will be made up of immigrants. Already one in 10 of those living in Britain was born abroad. These are all whacking great numbers, which tell us that if one strips out the momentary effects of the downturn, immigration continues to outpace our capacity to cope.

“”While some reports said the French would use British taxpayers' cash to offer the migrants financial incentives to go home, most experts believe they will simply disperse to smaller makeshift camps around the Calais docks and continue their attempt to enter Britain illegally.

—"Keep out, Britain is full up", The Office for National StatisticsDaily Express article[10]